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Defense Attorney Heads South

Jul. 30, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

Making the move 120 miles south, white-collar criminal defense lawyer Yvonne Dutton has joined Allen Matkins Leck Gamble &...


If you've got a brand name but you just can't break into television or film, Miami's Greenberg Traurig has the answer. The fir...



A Laguna Beach-based computer products company has lured Doug Kari to be its general counsel and senior vice president of busi...


Cooley Godward Seats New Business-Department Chair

Jul. 30, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

Cooley Godward has announced a substitution in the not-so-coveted position of business department chairman. Mark Tanoury, 47, ...



"The retail market in the Inland Empire is white hot. The explosion of residential growth has driven high demand for all type...


Latham Represents Amgen In Big Biotech Deal

Jul. 30, 2002
By Toni Vranjes

The biggest merger in biotech history has closed, with Latham & Watkins representing Amgen Inc. in its $17.7 billion acqui...



Ropers Majeski Nabs Two Lawyers

Jul. 30, 2002
By Liz Valsamis

San Jose's Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has nabbed two attorneys: Philip Gregory for its San Jose office and Gerald Kna...


Los Angeles' Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory promoted five associates to partner effective July 1. The new partners ar...



The law firm of Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg is moving its downtown Los Angeles offices to 300 South Grand Avenue effective ...


Stripping Away the Years

Jul. 30, 2002
By Contributing Writer

BY ALAN NADITZ CREJ Staff Writer When she operated her boutique clothing store out of a small leased space on El Camino Avenu...



Paul Sanner, the former senior corporate counsel to Bay Area engineering firm URS Corp., joined the San Francisco firm Thelen ...


Clifford Countdown

Jul. 30, 2002
By John Ryan

The Tower Snow-led exodus of partners from San Francisco's Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison to London-based Clifford Chance Rog...



Going Green, North and South

Jul. 30, 2002
By Columnist

BY KEVIN BROOKS The Northern California Green Team was looking for a breakthrough. How could it assure prospective clients of ...


Quickly rising to the upper echelons of management, Jerry L. Marks was named partner-in-charge of Heller Ehrman White & Mc...



Public Counsel, the largest public-interest pro bono law firm in the country, elected James Barnes to its board of directors. ...


Out of the Fire Drill and On to the Feast

Jul. 30, 2002
By Riley Guerin

JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer Except for palm trees, no one would mistake Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood for the white san...



San Francisco's Steefel, Levitt & Weiss is officially open for business in Los Angeles. The 80-attorney firm began operati...


Firm's Estate Practice Adds Pair

Jul. 30, 2002
By Erik Cummins

San Jose's 40-lawyer corporate and litigation firm Hopkins & Carley has doubled the size of its estate and tax planning de...



A federal judge has tossed out a case pitting public shareholders against the largest computer-chip maker. The plaintiffs cont...


Mary Neale bid farewell to San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she served as Los Angeles managing partne...



Piper Rudnick is moving on up - not exactly to the East Side - but to the fourth floor of the SunAmerica Center in Century Cit...


The Orange County Transportation Authority appointed Lawrence Esten, managing partner of the Irvine office of Manning & Ma...



Justice Group Nominates Irvine Lawyer

Jul. 30, 2002
By Christina Landers

An Orange County attorney was among the finalists for Trial Lawyer of Year, which was awarded to three attorneys from the sout...


These days, the attorneys at intellectual property boutique Lyon & Lyon probably are wishing they'd stuck with their engin...



Hear the Children's Voices

Jul. 29, 2002
By Columnist

Forum Column - By Lisa Pinto - The brutal murder of five-year-old Samantha Runnion is a frightening reminder that our children...


Control Issues

Jul. 27, 2002
By Columnist

Column by Palmer Brown - Madden Mediators often begin mediation sessions with an opening statement that includes an explanatio...



The Peacemaker

Jul. 27, 2002
By Eron Yehuda

San Francisco neutral Michael G. Ornstil admits having a dual personality. He relishes intense competition, a character trait ...


Avila 'Was Not a Monster'

Jul. 27, 2002
By Jenna Bordelon

SANTA ANA - Alejandro Avila's defense attorney in an earlier molestation case spoke out Thursday about his former client, sayi...



White House Gives the Nod To Nominee From Orrick

Jul. 27, 2002
By Joel Rosenblatt

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeffrey White, a litigation partner at Orrick Harrington & Sutcliffe, cleared another hurdle to an appoint...


Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - The president of the U.S. Olympic Committee resigned recently because of discrepanc...